JPH09330143A - Pack body attachable to and detachable from electronic equipment, and the body attachable and detachable electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the electronic equipment compact by providing a body (packed body), in which an HDD, a battery, etc., are packed, with a mechanism for attachment to and detachment from the electronic equipment and locking. SOLUTION: A storage part 5 which stores the pack body 4 is formed at the front end of the main body 2 of notebook type electronic equipment. A handle 7 of the pack body 4 is coupled with a housing 9 by loosely inserting a shaft 10 fitted to the housing 9 of the pack body 5 into a long hole 11 formed in the flank of the handle 7 in an opening 8 formed in the front surface of the pack body 5. A finger is hooked to a dowel 17 on the surface of the handle 7 to apply a downward force to the handle 7. An engagement piece 12 and a rib 14 are disengaged from each other through the said operation and the handle 7 slides down. This slide resets insertion into a small hole 15 and an engagement hole 16 of a tongue piece 13. The handle 7 rotates on the shaft 10 by 90 deg., and the pack body 4 can be taken out of a storage part 6 by drawing the rotated handle 7 out of the storage part 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a pack body that can be attached to and detached from an electronic device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, it is possible to improve the performance of electronic equipment by making HDDs, batteries, etc., respectively, packable and attachable to and detachable from the electronic equipment body such as a personal computer (for example, the actual flat panel 6). -2431 gazette).

[0003]

A mechanism for attaching / detaching and locking an electronic device such as a packaged HDD or battery (hereinafter referred to as a pack) in the electronic device is disclosed in the above publication. Conventionally, it was often provided on the electronic device side, as also disclosed.

However, if the above-mentioned detachable / locking mechanism is formed in a portable small electronic device called a notebook type, the internal volume of the housing is small, which hinders the mounting of the circuit board, the power supply circuit and other packs. It was a hindrance to performance improvement.

[0005]

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and a first feature thereof is to form a lock mechanism in a pack body, the pack body comprising a casing and the casing. An opening formed by cutting out a lower end of the front surface of the opening, a rib standing on the bottom surface of the housing at the lower end of the opening, a shaft extending in the width direction of the opening in the opening, and an elongated hole formed on a side surface of the opening. A shaft is loosely inserted, and a handle part that is movable in the up and down direction along the shaft in the housing space that is connected to the opening and the upper part of the opening, and the handle part that is formed on the upper part of the back surface of the handle part. A tongue piece that protrudes outside the housing through a small hole formed in the top surface of the housing when moved upward,
A substantially hemispherical locking piece formed on the back surface and locked to the top surface of the rib when the handle portion moves upward.

A second feature is that the electronic device main body is provided with a locking hole into which a tongue protruding through the small hole is inserted.

[0007]

1 and 2 schematically show a notebook electronic device to which the present invention is applied. This electronic device is
A main body 2 having a keyboard 1 arranged on the upper surface and a display body 3 rotatably attached to the rear end (left end in the figure) of the main body 2 are provided. A flat panel display (not shown) made of liquid crystal or the like is provided on the surface of the display body 3 facing the main body 2.
Is installed. A storage portion 5 for storing the pack body 4 is formed at the lower portion of the front end (right end in the figure) of the main body 2. The storage portion 5 communicates with the outside through an opening formed on the front end side of the main body 2, and the pack body 4 is attached and detached through this opening.

3 to 5 are enlarged cross-sectional views of the essential parts for explaining the attachment / detachment of the pack body 4 to / from the storage part 5. As shown in FIG.

The accommodating portion 5 has a metal plate having five surfaces other than the opening (only a part of the top surface 6 is shown in FIGS. 3 to 5).
It is formed by partitioning a part of the inside of the main body 2. Further, the pack body 5 mounted in the storage section 5 has a handle 7 located near the opening of the storage section 5.

The handle 7 is attached to the housing 9 of the pack body 5 so as to extend in the width direction (the direction perpendicular to the paper surface in FIGS. 3 to 5) in the opening 8 formed in the front surface of the pack body 5. The shaft 10 thus formed is formed on the side surface of the handle 7 and is connected to the housing 9 by being loosely inserted in a long hole 11 extending in the vertical direction in FIG. On the back surface of the handle 7, there is a substantially hemispherical locking piece 12 near the lower part, and a long hole 11 on the upper part.
A tongue piece 13 extending upward in FIG.

When the handle 7 is in the state shown in FIG. 3, the locking piece 12 is locked to the top of a rib 14 standing on the bottom surface of the housing 9 below the opening 8, and the tongue piece 13 is Through the small hole 15 formed in the top surface of the housing 9, the tip of the projection is inserted into the locking hole 16 formed in the top surface 6 of the housing portion 5 while protruding outside the housing 9.

The width of the small hole 15 (the length in the left-right direction in FIGS. 3 to 5) is such that the locking piece 12 does not come off from the top of the rib 14 even when the handle 7 rotates about the shaft 10. The width is restricted to. Therefore, in the state of FIG. 3, the locking between the rib 14 and the locking piece 12 is not released by vibration or the like. Further, at this time, since the tongue piece 13 is inserted into the locking hole 16 of the top surface 6, the pack body 4 does not come out of the storage portion 5.

To remove the pack body 4 from the storage portion 5, first, a finger is hooked on the dowel 17 formed on the surface of the handle 7 to apply a downward force to the handle 7. The locking piece 12
Since it has a hemispherical shape, the locking piece 1
The engagement between the rib 2 and the rib 2 is released, and the handle 7 slides downward as shown in FIG. Further, this slide also releases the insertion of the tongue piece 13 into the small hole 15 and the locking hole 16, so that the handle 7 rotates 90 degrees around the shaft 10 and can be taken out of the opening 8 as shown in FIG. . Therefore, the operator can pull out the pack 4 from the storage 6 by pulling the rotated handle 7 to the outside of the storage 5.

Since the pack body 4 can be mounted in the storage portion 6 in the reverse order of the above-mentioned taking-out procedure, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

[0015]

According to the present invention, the lock mechanism for fixing the pack body to the electronic equipment body can be provided on the pack body side, which is advantageous for downsizing the electronic equipment. Further, since the lock mechanism itself can be used as a handle when pulled out from the main body, operability of attachment / detachment is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view schematically showing a notebook electronic device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a side view schematically showing a notebook electronic device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view of an essential part of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Fig. 4] (Same as above)

[Fig. 5] (Same as above)

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Main body 4 Pack body 5 Storage part 6 Top surface 7 Handle 8 Opening 10 Shaft 11 Long hole 12 Locking piece 13 Tongue piece 14 Rib 15 Small hole 16 Locking hole

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A housing, an opening formed by cutting out a lower end of a front surface of the housing, a rib erected on a bottom surface of the housing at a lower end of the opening, and a shaft extending in the width direction of the opening in the opening. The shaft is loosely inserted into a long hole formed in the side surface, and the handle is movable in the up-down direction along the shaft in the housing space that is connected to the opening and the upper portion of the opening, and a handle of the handle. A tongue piece that is formed on the upper part of the rear surface and protrudes outside the housing through a small hole that is formed in the top surface of the housing when the above-mentioned grip portion moves upward, and the above-mentioned handle portion that is formed on the above-mentioned rear surface. And a substantially hemispherical locking piece that is locked to the top surface of the rib when moved in the direction. 2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein, when the tongue piece projects to the outside of the housing through the small hole, rotation of the handle portion around the shaft is restricted. A pack that can be attached to and detached from the device. 3. An electronic device in which a pack body is attachable to and detachable from a storage portion formed on one side surface of a main body and communicating with the outside, wherein the pack body has an opening formed by notching a housing and a lower end of a front surface of the housing. A rib that is erected on the bottom surface of the housing at the lower end of the opening, a shaft that extends in the width direction of the opening in the opening, and the shaft that is loosely inserted into a long hole formed in a side surface of the opening. And a handle part that is movable in the vertical direction along the shaft in the space inside the housing that is connected to the upper part of the opening, and the housing that is formed on the upper rear part of the handle part and moves when the handle part moves upward. A tongue protruding outside the housing through a small hole formed in the top surface, and a substantially hemispherical shape formed on the back surface and locked to the top surface of the rib when the handle portion moves upward. When the pack body is attached to the main body, An electronic device in which a pack body can be attached and detached, characterized in that a locking hole communicating with the small hole and through which the tongue piece is inserted is formed.